EAW002149 ENGLAND (1946). A clifftop campsite, Crimdon Park, from the north-east, 1946

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Title [EAW002149] A clifftop campsite, Crimdon Park, from the north-east, 1946
Reference EAW002149
Date 1-August-1946
Link
Place name CRIMDON PARK
Parish MONK HESLEDEN
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 447845, 538054
Longitude / Latitude -1.2568631778867, 54.735078304845
National Grid Reference NZ478381

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SECTION POST: e30369

Matt Aldred edob.mattaldred.com
Monday 23rd of November 2020 09:03:40 PM
PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/23): e46626

Matt Aldred edob.mattaldred.com
Monday 23rd of November 2020 09:03:10 PM
Second World War Type 23 pillbox

Chris Kolonko
Friday 15th of September 2017 09:50:06 PM

Sparky
Wednesday 30th of August 2017 05:53:56 PM
WW2 Reused Structure

Sparky
Wednesday 30th of August 2017 05:53:09 PM
WW2 Reused Structure

Sparky
Wednesday 30th of August 2017 05:53:07 PM
WW2 Structure subject to landslip

Sparky
Wednesday 30th of August 2017 05:51:55 PM

Brigham
Tuesday 12th of July 2016 09:03:36 AM

jrussill
Tuesday 7th of January 2014 10:04:31 PM
World War Two Section Post. Part of the coasts anti invasion defences.

HALLY64
Saturday 14th of September 2013 12:46:15 PM
Dispersed settlement at Crimdon, consisting of 1920s semi-detached dwellings, one of which became the Seagull Public House.

John Swain
Saturday 24th of August 2013 11:42:47 AM

John Swain
Saturday 24th of August 2013 11:40:19 AM
Looking south-west towards Sheraton Hill.

John Swain
Saturday 24th of August 2013 11:38:13 AM
Crimdon Dene leading inland to Nesbitt and Hesleden Denes.

John Swain
Saturday 24th of August 2013 11:36:00 AM

John Swain
Saturday 24th of August 2013 11:34:49 AM
Arched railway bridge providing access to the cliff-top campsite.

John Swain
Saturday 24th of August 2013 11:32:23 AM
Coast Road (A1086).

John Swain
Saturday 24th of August 2013 11:29:00 AM
L.& N.E.R. Coast Branch Line opened in 1905.

John Swain
Saturday 24th of August 2013 11:27:51 AM
Durham Coast Path

John Swain
Saturday 24th of August 2013 11:22:02 AM
Rocky foreshore leading to sandy beach at Crimdon

John Swain
Saturday 24th of August 2013 11:21:12 AM
Cliffs formed in Magnesian Limestone, south and east of Blackhall Rocks, with covering layer of softer glacial drift.

John Swain
Saturday 24th of August 2013 11:18:50 AM

Class31
Wednesday 7th of August 2013 08:29:38 PM

User Comment Contributions

Section Post at Crimdon Dene.

cptpies
Thursday 19th of December 2013 01:39:25 PM
This view of the beach and cliff at Crimdon was taken on New Year's Day 2013 from the seaward edge of Crimdon Park Caravan site and shows the existing threat of active coastal erosion, which was exacerbated by a long and severe winter in the North East.

John Swain
Saturday 24th of August 2013 12:07:44 PM
This picture shows Crimdon Park during its popular phase as a destination for mainly local people from the nearby colliery settlements such as Blackhall and Horden. From the 1920s, Durham mining communities used Crimdon for their annual holidays. In postwar years, the camping site gave way to a huge caravan park, one of the largest of its kind in the country. This correspondent first visited the beach at Crimdon with his young family 40 years ago, but the halcyon days of the 1950s were already over and the facilities, such as they were, have gradually diminished further. Today, the locality is better known for the Durham Coast National Nature Reserve and for the Hart Warren Dunes Nature Reserve, although the extensive caravan park still appears to be thriving, despite the ever-present threat of coastal erosion!

John Swain
Saturday 24th of August 2013 11:58:45 AM
I have tried to read the fleet name on the buses and I can't. So I'll just have to guess that they might be operated by United. Perhaps someone can tell us more?

Class31
Wednesday 7th of August 2013 08:37:51 PM